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-- Published on the occasion of the groundbreaking exhibition The Buddha's Art of Healing: Tibetan Medical Paintings Rediscovered (Sackler Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, August-December 1998) -- Begin the year with an introduction to the Tibetan medical system, provided by the Dali Lama himself -- Provocative monthly statements by Richard Gere stress the importance of achieving balance within the self and balance between self and environment, self and others, and self and illness and death -- Details from recently discovered scroll paintings illustrate the elaborate ancient system of Tibetan Buddhist medicine, with dieties of equilibrium, meditational images for balancing the mind, and more -- Rizzoli is publishing the official exhibition catalogue, Buddha's Art of Healing: Tibetan Paintings Rediscovered